Category Archive for 'Weather'

SALMON SAYS: We recently received a question asking the average temperature in Boston. Since Notre Dame is almost 900 miles west of Boston, it felt a bit like a Monty Python character asking for completely random and irrelevant information… “what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” On further investigation, however, it was […]

YES! Get good boots! The South Bend area averages 81.8″ of snow per year, with much of that total coming from lake effect snow squalls off nearby Lake Michigan. The most likely month for heavy snow is January, though snow depth on the ground at any one time rarely exceeds 10″. Winter temperatures reach their […]

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